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Interview: George Monbiot on Rewilding

In July I had the great privilege of chairing George Monbiot’s presentation on rewilding at the Ways With Words literary festival at Dartington Hall. Before the talk we found a quiet corner and chatted for about half an hour about the book, and some of the ideas and issues

Why Transition needs a sense of wonder

It’s dusk. The family who arrived earlier in the day and pitched their tent next to ours have just asked us if we’d like to join them for a short walk to see “something magical”. We walk in the near-darkness down a grassy track to a lane with

August 2014 – Transition Network Newsletter

Although we are mostly kicking our shoes off this month, we still have some inspiration for you, such as why is it so important to celebrate what you do, plus news of Transition Training in India, and more. The Power of NOT Doing Stuff Our theme for August is about

Transition for tribal communities in Orissa, India

Transition Training Empowering Tribal Communities in Orissa It was summer 2013 and wasn’t sure I was hearing right. So I asked again, “She’s doing transition training where?” The answer came back down the corridor and I replied, still not sure of my hearing. “Seriously? And it really takes

The Future of Food: a new Transition programme for primary schools

This is a guest blog from Marina O’Connell who runs the Apricot Centre in Essex as a small market garden and education centre. Over the last year Schools in Transition has been developing and trialling a programme for primary schools that is based on the CPRE Food Web Mapping

Creating a culture of celebration

When I was about 12 a friend of my sister came on holiday with my family. We were quite a typical family of three irritable siblings – when someone started singing or playing an instrument another child was guaranteed to tell them to “Shut up, that sounds horrible”. We were continually

The Transition FAMILY Connections Game

This is the blog we are using to follow the Transition FAMILY Connections Game – sending presents to Copenhagen using the Six Degrees of Separation concept. The idea is that people that cannot be present at the meeting of the Hubs of the Transition Movement, can be represented in a symbolic